Technique of Orchestration and CD Recording Package, The - Tapa dura

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KENT KENNAN is Professor Emeritus of Music at the University of Texas at Austin, where he taught for many years. After completing his musical studies at the Eastman School of Music, he received the Prix de Rome in music. His compositions have been performed by many major orchestras, and a number have been published and recorded. He is the author of COUNTERPOINT, Fourth Edition (Prentice Hall, Inc. 1999).

DONALD GRANTHAM, D.M.A. in composition from the University of Southern California, is Professor of Music at the University of Texas at Austin. He is a winner of the Prix Lili Boulanger and the recipient of a Citation in Music from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. His works have been performed by many orchestras including Cleveland, Atlanta, Dallas, and the American Composers Orchestra.

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This masterful textbook emphasizes the fundamentals of orchestration. Following a brief introduction to the orchestra, the authors discuss the instruments individually. then by section, and finally in the full orchestral context. Suitable for beginning orchestration courses, the book also contains more advanced material.

• Up-to-date information on instruments
• Examples from scores of various periods and styles
• Lists of suggested assignments, music suitable for scoring assignments, and music for suggested listening
• Short chapters on scoring for school orchestra and oat nonorchestral instrumental groups, including band and wind ensemble
• A workbook (available separately) containing carefully selected music for scoring assignments

• Inclusion of a CD containing selected examples
• Several new examples from scores